Vampires apparently love to dance (after all, The Dead Can Dance), which is why so many shows that feature the blood-sucking fiends also feature a big dance floor, often ones they own. Often, the dance floor is lined with mirrors, just so the vampire's innocent, unaware dance partner can twig to the fact that there's a reason the guy she's dancing with is so pale.

Van Helsing features a fancy dress party. The dance hall is lined with mirrors, making it obvious to the female lead that she's basically the only one there with a pulse.

Once Bitten features a dance off between the hero's girlfriend and the vampire. Winner gets the hero.

In Fright Night (1985), the vampire Jerry Dandridge manages to hypnotize and make off with Amy Peterson while dancing with her at a nightclub, despite her being able to see that Dandridge has no reflection.

Blade opens with the vampires holding a rave in a meat-packing plant, complete with blood spraying from the fire sprinklers and victims lured in (presumably to be fed on).

Dracula: Dead and Loving It has a really funny dance sequence with a tango, a waltz, a ceiling length mirror, the works! Of course, the dance was set up by the vampire hunters as a way to reveal Dracula's true nature.

One of the first serious examples of the trope on film was 1983's The Hunger. The opening sequence is set at a rock club where the vampire couple Miriam and John Blaylock, disguised as merely chic clubgoers, observe the revelers on the dance floor and pick out a young couple from amongst them. They proceed to take them to a similarly stylish house to move in for the kill...and since these vampires are differentandsexy, the victims have no clue of their true natures until it's far too late. (As these vampires must feed weekly, it's implied that this sequence of events is routine for them.)

Literature

There was a formal vampire ball in one of The Dresden Files books. But in that case, it was already known the ball was being run by vampires.

Jack Fleming of The Vampire Files can dance, but only does so when it's necessary to get female suspects to talk with him, not when he's just having fun. His girlfriend Bobbi is a professional singer who dances in many of her acts, so will presumably become an example if and when she's turned.

At one point in The Auralight Chronicles, Dakota looks for clues in a nightclub owned by her girlfriend, who happens to be a vampire. While there, they start playing "Thriller" and everyone, vampire, werewolf, etc. starts dancing to the tune. Vampires dance the rest of the time as well, but, in this case it takes it straight into meta territory.

Live-Action TV

In Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the vampires often hunted at the Bronze, despite the fact that they knew the Slayer liked to hang out at that night club.

In "Crush", Spike and Drusilla dance to the music of "Key" by Devics while selecting their next victims.

In The Vampire Diaries, Damon Salvatore loves to dance. No, not seductive cooler than thou dancing. 1800's formal dancing, goofy swing dancing, shirtless dancing around the house while drunk to drown his sorrows dancing... Stefan has even commented upon it. Boy just loves to dance. YMMV on whether it is being played for laughs or not.

The town's obsession with theme events also leads to a lot of dances, and at least a couple of vampires generally attend. It's a rare Mystic Falls event that ends without a body count.

Inverted in the British series Ultraviolet. The protagonist nearly shoots his unrequited Love Interest in a nightclub because he's convinced she's been turned into a vampire. It's only when she flees down a mirrored corridor that he realises he's made a mistake.

Forever Knight. The Raven, a goth nightclub which is also a haunt for vampires. Humans also use the club, so presumably it's used to hunt as well, as Schanke finds out when he ignores his partner's warning not to go in there, and gets in a Mating Dance with a sultry vampire chick.

In the 1980s mini-series The Little Vampire, we see the boy vampire Rudiger's punk-rocker brother Lumpi leading the band at a rave of Goth teenaged humans who don't suspect what he really is. Towards the end of the series, Rudiger invites his human friend Anton to a Vampire Ball, disguising him as a vampire to fool the other guests. Anton's cover is almost blown when it turns out he can't dance, something which all vampires love to do, according to Rudiger.

In the 1990s mini-series reboot of The Little Vampire, Rudiger again brings Anton to a Vampire Ball disguised as a vampire, but they get a shock when Anton's unsuspecting parents also come to the dance dressed as vampires, thinking it is just a costume party. The rest of the evening is spent with Rudiger and Anton trying to prevent the other vampires from catching on that Anton and his parents are human, and Anton's parents from catching on that the other guests aren't people dressed as vampires, but the REAL THING!

Music

While Voltaire's original 'Vampire Club' (as reference in the quote above) was more about LARPers, the 'Twilight Edition' played this trope straight...or would have, if the werewolves hadn't crashed the party.

In Bobby Picket's "Monster Mash", Dracula is upset at first that the Transylvania Twist is passé because of the new dance (which is a "graveyard smash"), but he gets over it.

True Crime: New York City has a mission where Detective Marcus must enter a "vampyre" Club, complete with smoke machine and fetish attire. Granted you barely get to see any dancing and they are not "real vampires" (goths, and wannabes mostly) but it looks like something out of the first Blade movie. Once Marcus upsets the girl he's there to rescue, the ringleader of the club promises to show Marcus "How Vampyrer fight!"

Webcomics

The Elite Council in Charby the Vampirate throws a formal party at King Samrick's castle complete with a dance floor and DJ.

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